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The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board has named Hamilton graduate John Young '71 to a three-year term ending on September 30, 2011.  Young, currently the managing director at Samuel A. Ramirez & Co. in New York, brings with him a intimate understanding of municipal securities to the MSRB.

Fallen Giants A History of Himalayan Mountaineering From the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, co-authored by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman and University of Rochester professor Stewart Weaver, received yet another glowing review, this time from The Atlantic in its March issue. The reviewer described the book as a "comprehensive account, a vacuum-filling history (the first of its kind in five-plus decades) and an enormously engaging addition to the climbing-lit canon."

Angel David Nieves, associate professor of Africana Studies, contributed an essay, "Place of pain as tools for social justice in the 'new' South Africa: Black heritage preservation in the 'rainbow' nation's townships," in William Logan & Keir Reeves (eds.), Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage' (London: Routledge, 2009).

Assistant Professor of Government Ted Lehmann wrote an article that appeared in the January issue of Security Studies, a leading international relations theory and security journal. The article "Keeping Friends Close and Enemies Closer: Classical Realist Statecraft and Economic Exchange in U.S. Interwar Strategy," sheds new and original light on our entry into WWII and the origins of Japanese oil dependency on the United States.

Scholarly work in instructional technology designed by Barb Tewksbury, the Upson Chair for Public Discourse and Professor of Geosciences, and Heather Macdonald of the College of William and Mary, has been peer-reviewed and published in Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT).

Artwork by Visiting Professor of Art Kathryn Parker Almanas was published in Toronto Life magazine, Superbugged: p.58-59, 61, 62: March 2009. Her work accompanied an article about Superbugs by Stephanie Verge. The writer contracted a superbug (MRSA) while she was in the hospital and the piece is about her terrifying experience. The photos were from Almanas' series "Medical Interior" that deals with similar themes of patient perspective and the tempestuous environment of the hospital where life and death, comfort and fear coexist.

Ai Media Group has named Hamilton graduate Andrew Fenster '72 as Chief Executive Officer.  Fenster will bring extensive marketing and financial experience, formerly serving as Vice President and Controller of Big Flower Holdings, a New York-based $2.5 billion advertising and marketing company.

Peter Kosgei '10 won two events and Hamilton College placed third at the Liberty League indoor track & field championships held at St. Lawrence University's Newell Field House on Feb. 14.

Hamilton College athletes placed in the top three in six events and the Continentals finished third at the Liberty League indoor track & field championships at St. Lawrence University's Newell Field House on Feb. 14.

In Celebration of Black History Month, Hamilton will host a Black Inventions Exhibit on Tuesday, Feb. 17, from 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. in K.J. Commons. The exhibit was created to develop racial pride, promote racial understanding and remedy public ignorance about black inventors, achievers, pioneers and scientists. it is appearing at various venues throughout North America.